I Woke Up This Gay
Stuart Merrill
This podcast chronicles my 40 year journey as a gay rights activist in United States, West Germany & the Soviet Union.
The first episode "Russia Doesn't Have Gay Heroes," tells the story of the hero of the 1991 revolution that ended communism in Russia. Two days later he was assassinated for being gay because "Russia Doesn't Have Gay Heroes."
Born into a prominent Mormon family, but raised by my Russian mother speaking Russian, German & English I was recruited out of high school to work undercover for United States government intelligence agencies & the KGB. I became the first American allowed to keep my top secret security clearance after coming out as a gay man.
My story takes you through the streets of Moscow & Berlin, the AIDS wards of New York & Chicago, the halls of the United States Congress & the Utah State Legislature to pass hate crime & gay rights legislation as well as state and federal legislation paying for HIV medication.
My name is Stuart Merrill and
I Woke Up This Gay.
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